Universität Konstanz
Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science
Universitätsstraße 10
78464 Konstanz, Germany
Room F301
Tel.: 0049 7531 88-4902
E-Mail: claudia.roesch@uni-konstanz.de
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10 am to 11 am and by appointment.
About
Claudia Roesch is a lecturer (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) in the department of history and sociology and she is an associated researcher with the modern history working group. Her current research project "Utopian Engineering: Solving the 19th Century Slavery, Labor, and the Women’s Questions with Science" investigates knowledge production in intentional communities in the 19th century Americas.
For her research project "Utopian Engineering", she held a cooperative position between the Max-Weber-Foundation and the University of Konstanz from December 2023 to Feburary 2024.
From 2018 to 2023 she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington and spokesperson for the GHI History of Knowledge research focus.
She studied Contemporary History, English and American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and received her PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Münster in 2014 with a dissertation of Mexican immigrant families in the 20th century United States. Since then, she has received a postdoctoral research grant by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for archival research on the project “Between Public Decisions and Private Choice: Reproductive Debates in the 20th Century United States.” From 2015 to 2017, she was a researcher in the University of Münster’s Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Decision-Making”. Her research interests include the history of gender, family, migration, and knowledge in a transatlantic perspective.
You can find a full CV here.
Current Research Project
Research Areas:
- North American History in the 19th and 20th century
- History of Migration
- History of Knowledge and Ideas
- Gender and Sexuality
- History of the Family
Selected Publications
"Talking about the Weather: Producing Climate Knowledge as Colonial Practice in Intentional Communities in the Americas, 1820s–1840s", in: History of Intellectual Culture 3 (2024): 137-157, Link:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111291383-007
"Owen and the Engineers: Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition", in: Global Intellectual History (2023), S. 1-16, Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2258455
Wunschkinder: Eine transnationale Geschichte der Familienplanung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021), Cover, Link: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/transnationaleglobalgeschichte/56915/wunschkinder.
Macho Men and Modern Women: Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Oldenbourg 2015).
"A Contested Pill. Transnational Controversies over Medical Abortion in Germany, France, and the United States", in: Journal of Contemporary History (2022 forthcoming) Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00220094221099850?journalCode=jcha.
Outreach
Interview: Winner of the 2024 USI Communal Studies Rsearch Travel Grant (19.09.2024)
Interview: L.I.S.A Wissenschaftsprotal Gerda Henkel Stiftung, „Ab wann wurde Familie eigentlich etwas Planbares?“ (30.11.2021), online: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/roesch?fbclid=IwAR1rVPBAKwlHyr8UmEBFQl4_U5z_YrsccFHHH8WzIQVjw30MqRB7jiX2R0k
Interview: GiD-Lab: Schöne neue Welt (15.10.2020), online Zugriff: https://gid.hypotheses.org/2553
Podcast: „Wissen entgrenzen“, Episode 13: „Individuelle Familienplanung und das Recht auf Abtreibung in Polen und Deutschland" (08.03.2023).
Prizes and Awards (selection):
German-American Fulbright Commission / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien: Fulbright American Studies Award 2024
Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana Research Travel Grant für das Projekt:Utopian Engineering: Solving the 19th Century Slavery, Labor, and the Women’s Question with Science